My Utopian Vision Includes Peace and Opportunity
Reading history, today’s headlines, and predictions of the future one could give up hope and think humans were meant to destroy each other. War after war, and stunning inequalities are…
Does Being Critical Make One An Expert, or Simply Jealous?
My question with this entry is if being critical of creative things shows expertise or a kind of jealousy in a way. For myself I seem to be uncritical of…
School Book Challenge in NYC, and A Rant
(The views expressed in this blog entry our my own, and not necessarily the library system I work for.) A close friend of mine recently told me there was a…
Reasons I’m Agnostic, Not Atheist
I read a few definitions online of Agnosticism and Atheism. My understanding of it is Agnostic tolerates the choice of others by not denying religion. Atheism denies any type of…
Music downloads, streaming, old, new, edits, and social media
At work I do enjoy when music CDs I selected eight years ago still get checked out by patrons of the library. It validates that I have good musical taste…
Henry Miller and Today’s Library Book Challenges Problem
The views expressed on this post are my own, and not the system I work for. Nearly twenty years ago I first read Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller for…